{"slug": "waymo-car-delivers-misbehaving-teen-passengers-to-san-mateo-police", "title": "Waymo car delivers misbehaving teen passengers to San Mateo police", "summary": "Two 15-year-olds were arrested in San Mateo after a Waymo autonomous vehicle they were riding in alerted police to their misbehavior, including drinking alcohol and shooting water beads from a toy gun. The car stopped in a parking lot and company employees monitored interior cameras before contacting authorities. Waymo's support team can access live video in urgent situations.", "body_md": "**Getting your**\n\n[Trinity Audio](//trinityaudio.ai)player ready...Two teens who engaged a Waymo car for an afternoon of carousing were busted after the vehicle delivered them to the San Mateo police.\n\nThe 15-year-olds allegedly were drinking alcohol and shooting water beads from a toy gun as they rode in the driverless car Monday, the [police’s social media post](https://www.facebook.com/CityofSanMateoPolice) said. Waymo stopped the car in a parking lot and notified the police, who detained the teens.\n\nPolice photos show five officers, one with a dog, surrounding the car at a shopping center just south of the interchange of El Camino Real and Highway 92.\n\nThe police post allowed “there was some ingenuity to this scheme” but said underage drinking and brandishing of even toy guns to strangers are “bad ideas.”\n\nWaymo cars have interior cameras, and the images can be monitored by the company’s employees. In “more urgent circumstances,” the support team “may access live video during a trip,” [Waymo’s support page says](https://support.google.com/waymo/answer/9190819?hl=en).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/waymo-car-delivers-misbehaving-teen-passengers-to-san-mateo-police", "canonical_source": "https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/07/07/waymo-car-reports-drinking-teens/", "published_at": "2026-07-07 13:35:45+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-07 14:01:21.559094+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["autonomous-vehicles", "ai-safety", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Waymo", "San Mateo Police"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/waymo-car-delivers-misbehaving-teen-passengers-to-san-mateo-police", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/waymo-car-delivers-misbehaving-teen-passengers-to-san-mateo-police.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/waymo-car-delivers-misbehaving-teen-passengers-to-san-mateo-police.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/waymo-car-delivers-misbehaving-teen-passengers-to-san-mateo-police.jsonld"}}